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Technically, I would say yes. This would fall in the unintended consequences. That said according to leveling basically everything is a class ability.
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Would a Life Shaman's Spirit Animal ability effectively give Fast Healing 2?
I would say no. The traits says, "when you heal creatures" not "when creatures are healed" so it sounds to me like you have to do something active.
I would say life link works.
A phantom with it would not as a phantom has no class abilities and would be the one doing the healing. A phantom would be both a character and a class feature but would need to be a character with class features to make this work.
Eidolon would fall into the the same category as above for me.
* these are my best guess at a weird set of rule interactions.
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What count as "class abilities"?
Familiar, AC, and Phantom abilities are all granted by your class, so it seems like they'd count. But arguably aren't from the companion's "class" but from yours. It seems fairly cut and dry, but I want to check before I built a character around it.I'm specifically asking about:
In addition, when you heal creatures other than yourself using class abilities, feats, spells, and spell-completion or spell-trigger magic items, you restore 1 additional hit point.Which seems intended to be pretty inclusive.
I think they are class abilities, but if the familiar/phantom/eidolon is doing it, then it doesn't qualify for the trait.
Trait says: "when you heal creatures other than yourself using..."
Even if the familiar is your class ability, the familiar is healing the creature, not you. So it wouldn't qualify for the trait. Still a pretty awesome trait.
An animal companion is a class ability, that companions ability to (e.g.) pounce, is not a class ability of yours.
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I don't think the animal gaining fast healing only because you choose it as your spirit animal would trigger the trait. But casting infernal healing would, because you are healing another creature with a spell.
If you are using the familiar to deliever touch spells that you cast, yeah, that could work. If the spell is being cast by the familiar, then no, because the familiar is casting the spell.
Regarding fast healing, no, I don't think it applies. I agree with grandlounge. I don't think this is intended (or written) to transform fast healing 1 into fast healing 2. In the case of fast healing, you are granting fast healing to the creature, but fast healing is an ability where the creature heals itself. Granting fast healing is not you healing them.
As an aside, a trait is supposed to be worth half a feat. What you are describing is worth easily a feat and maybe more. I think if you persue this on the rules forums, the only likely outcome is to get your trait nerfed....An outcome I'd rather not see, since it's a very good trait as is with only adding 1 HP to cure spells.